TeachersFirst's Mother's Day Resources
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Use the resources found on this page to honor mom! Learn about the history of Mother's Day. And find ways to incorporate celebrating Mother's Day into your curriculum. Plus, find ideas for some cheap (or better yet, FREE) gifts. Looking for some interactive gifts for your students to create for mom (or grandma)? Check out the TeachersFirst Special Occasions Page.
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Origami club - Fumiaki Shingu
Grades
K to 8
In the Classroom
Learn about the culture of Japan, geometry, and art with Origami. Use these video tutorials to create clever objects for holiday gifts while teaching mathematical principals about 2D and 3D figures, line, area, perimeter, and planes. Demonstrate how to create an origami object by projecting the site's animated videos directions. Stop and pause the video as students follow along. Save this site in your favorites on classroom computers so students can practice paper folding independently. Afterward, discuss the benefits of oral, visual, or animated directions. Ask students to describe the folding process with geometric terms such as fractional parts, symmetry, faces, edges, rotations, lines, triangle, angles, and shapes. Consider having students use a variety of multimedia presentation platforms to publish their personal version of directions. Have students create multimedia presentations that add narration to each fold with Voicethread reviewed here. Alternatively, share video directions on SchoolTube reviewed here or TeacherTube reviewed here. Have cooperative learning groups create podcasts demonstrating how to create origami with sites such as PodOmatic (reviewed here).You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Mother's Day - Myvocabulary.com
Grades
2 to 10tag(s): mothers day (11), vocabulary (229)
In the Classroom
Share the puzzles on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students work with a partner to try out the puzzles on their own. Use this site to enhance a lesson about Mother's Day. Try the activities, most are very easy to use in any classroom. The activities vary from art to writing to newspapers in education.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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A Tribute to Mothers.... Mother's Day - TheMothersDay.org.uk
Grades
1 to 8tag(s): mothers day (11)
In the Classroom
Use this website to provide some education about Mother's Day. Have your students learn how to pronounce "Mother" in other languages. Have your ESL and ELL students share how to say mother in their native languages. Teach about Mother Teresa, learn about the history of the holiday, read the poems, and explore this website together.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mother's Day - Kaboose
Grades
K to 5tag(s): mothers day (11)
In the Classroom
Try some of the crafts with your students, or list this link on your class website for students to use at home. Why not create the Fingerprint Flower Vase? Maybe you can even tie it into science class during a unit on fingerprint types and forensics? There are countless other possibilities at this site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Who Came Up With Mother's Day and Why? - HowStuffWorks
Grades
K to 12tag(s): greek (37), mothers day (11)
In the Classroom
Share this historical site with your students on a projector or interactive whiteboard. List this link on your class website during Spring. Parents may be surprised to learn how this holiday came to be!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Celebrate Mother's Day in a New Way - Education World
Grades
K to 12tag(s): mothers day (11), sociology (10), statistics (76)
In the Classroom
If you are looking for some new ideas to use in your classroom, check out these lessons. They are ready to go, highly creative topics, and most importantly - FREE.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Mother's Day in the Classroom - The Graphics Cupboard
Grades
K to 5tag(s): mothers day (11)
In the Classroom
This site is a good one to search for quick and easy ideas to celebrate Mother's Day. Save this site in your class favorites and use this site as a learning center for partners to explore together.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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